Support for bicycles.



(No Model.)

Patented Sept. 12, I899.

H. H. PERKES.

SUPPORT FOR BICYCLES.

(Application filed Nov. 10, 1898.)

2 Sheets-Sheet No. 633,036. Patented Sept. l2, I899. H. H. PEBKES. SUPPORT FOR BICYCLES.

(Application filed Nov. 10, 1898.) (No Model.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY HYDE PERKES, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

SUPPORT FOR BICYCLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,036, dated September 12, 1899.

Application filed November 10, 1898. Serial No. 696.112. (N0 models To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HYDE PERKES, gentleman, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 173 Strand, London,W. G. England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Re1ating to Portable Stands or Supports for Bicycles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to effectimprovements in that class of stands or supports for bicycles in which a strut is hinged to the frame; and my invention consists in providing improved means for automatically guiding and securing such struts in position; also, in adapting such means so that the strut may be used as a pump for infiating'the tires of the bicycle; and in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascertained reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bicycle fitted with my invention. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are respectively front, side, and under side views of the strut connection. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a portion of the pump-strut. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the pumphandle, illustrating one mode of locking the same to the pump barrel or strut.

According to my invention I clip or otherwise attach a shell to to the frame bof the bicycle, preferably to the lower front tube, as shown in Fig. 1. In this shell a I mount one end a of the strut cl, which is preferably made cylindrical and provided with a piston or pistons adapted to act as a pump. As shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, the shell is preferably of a globular shape.

The shell a is formed with two slots, one, a, downward and the other, a upward. Thev slot (0' is formed with a notch a so that when the end c of the strut d (shown in Fig. 5) reaches the end of the slot a and the bicycle is supported thereby the strut becomes engaged in the notch a thus securing it in position. The end of the strut is provided with a ball 0, which fits the interior of the globular shell (4, the strut not being shown connected in Figs. 2, 3, and4 for greater clearness. 6 is the clip, by means of which the shell is fixed to the frame I). The shell a is formed with an opening at a", through which the ball is passed, a plugbeing afterward inserted and secured in position by screws a or by other suitable means. The slot a serves to guide the strut upward, so that it maybe readily used for inflating purposes, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, the connector (1 being when not in use stored within the tubular piston, Fig. 6. The strut d is normally held parallel to the tube of the frame I) by a clipfor other suitable device.

In order to prevent the piston falling out the pump or strut d, I provide a bayonetjoint or other means, one portion (Z of the joint being fixed on the cover or cap 61 of the pump, Fig. 6, and the other portion d within the cylindrical handle (1 In this figure one end of the connector (1 is shown secured from falling out and from mud and dust by the screw cap or cover cl. \Vhen the shell or is formed cylindrical or of othershape, the strut is jointed within such shell by a universal joint, the slots being formed so as to carry out the requirements of supporting and pumping, as described with reference to the globular. shell. The strut might be in some cases provided with a suitable look, by means of which the pedal or crank may be readily locked thereto in order to prevent theft.

In using myinvention the strut is liberated from the clip f, and it falls by gravity, the slot ct guiding the same automatically into its supporting position, in which it is secured by the notch a The bicycle is then supported by the strut and is unable to move longitudinally by reason of the strut being unable to move on its joint and the Weight of the bicycle retaining the strut in the notch.

I claim- 1. The combination with a block or fitting having a slot curving upward and downward and terminating in an enlargement, of a strut having a spherical end fitted to work within the chamber of the fitting and ashank working in the said slot bywhich the strut is guided automatically to its position and there held, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with a block or fitting formed hollow and provided with a slot curving upward and downward and terminating in an enlargement, of a strut with a spherical end working in the hollow of the block and a shank working in the slot, and a plug held in the block after the spherical portion of thestrut is placed in position, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination with a block or fitting formed hollow and having a curved slot extending upward and downward and terminating in an enlargement, of a strut having a cylindrical portion and a portion movable therein to form a piston and having at its upper end a spherical portion working in the .hollow of the block and a shank working 

